Touching the skies! 17-year-old Ayesha Aziz is the youngest Kashmiri pilot

Meet 17-year-old Ayesha Aziz, who hails from Khawaja Bagh in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. She is the youngest Kashmiri girl to be awarded the student pilot license by Bombay Flying Club.

“It is a dream come true,” she says. Ayesha said that she had dreamt of flying an airplane since her school days.
Besides being a member of Indian Women Pilots’ Association, Ayesha has the Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s License (FRTOL) to her name. She cleared the exam of Student Pilot License in November 2011 and obtained the Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s License in another examination.
Ayesha is now aiming for commercial pilot license for which she is striving hard to clear the commercial pilot license (CPL) examination.
Bombay Flying Club, where she studies is the oldest flying club in India. It is considered as a premier aviation institute approved by Director General of Civil Aviation (Government of India).

20/09/13 Dailybhaskar.com

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